Plague Lands: And Other Poems Paperback – 1 April 2011

Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi The first of his poetry to appear in English this collection includes an elegy for the life of a lost city--a chronicle of a journey into exile haunted by the deep history of an ancient Memories of Baghdad's alleys smoke-filled cafés and mulberry-shaded squares are recalled with painful Karim's defiant humanity rejecting dogma and argumentative nature underscore his importance during fractured times and the comprehensive notes and explorations of Karim's life heirein illuminate the context of his best works.

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